TrustPaper for forged PDF with Issuer Fingerprints

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Yassine El Jakani, Mohamed Nadir Rhazi, Othmane Meknassi, Oualid Chbiki, Mounira Msahli, Francois Gonnet)

Summary by Cyber Security News14 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.14132v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sick leave certificates are increasingly delivered as PDF files by online teleconsultation platforms, and can be altered in minutes with free editors. Generic PDF scanners report how a file was built, but cannot tell whether that construction is legitimate: an incremental update, an embedded font or a given producer string is normal for one issuer and anomalous for another.

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